"Little Yellow Taiwan" HBO has made efforts in Taiwan!
Do you think it depends on the scale to increase the ratings? It's really not.
This time, the serious HBO tells the story of an outrageous social reality - the indiscriminate murder case of .
Indiscriminate murder case: The suspect and the victim have no grudges, randomly choose the target of the crime, and meet whoever kills whom they meet at the scene of the crime. The purpose of committing crimes is generally to retaliate against society and provoke ethnic revenge.
just aired, Douban 9.3, imdb also had a high score of 9.0, and it is even known as the best Chinese drama of this year.
" The distance between us and evil "
2019.03.24
screenwriter, HBO found the Golden Bell winner Lu Shiyuan. You may be unfamiliar with the name
, but if you mention a movie that became popular last year, you will know -
swept the eight nominations of the Golden Horse Awards last year's " Who Falls in Love with His ".
Lu Shiyuan personally visited many cases of indiscriminate murder for this drama. As soon as the script was released, it made Jia Jingwen , who had violated the Taiwanese drama for 15 years, become the starring actor.
In the interview, Jia Jingwen said that the reason she participated in "The Distance between Us and Evil" was because the script of deeply touched her.
The male lead is also starred by the actor Wu Kangren , who has always been very picky about scripts.
In addition, Wen Shenghao, Zhou Caishi, and Zeng Peici are also familiar faces in Taiwanese dramas.
What is more worth mentioning is that in addition to HBO, the other producer of this drama is Taiwan Public Television.
It claims to be the only TV station in Taiwan that truly respects the people and is not controlled by any political party or interest groups. The two major platforms of
cooperate to produce, which directly leads to the following prompts appearing at the opening:
Just think about it and know how hard the lines are!
story is based on the once sensational "5·21 Taipei MRT case" , and deeply explores the stories of several families behind the "indiscriminate murder case", with different positions and different participants.
Two years ago, Li Xiaoming fired in the theater, killing 9 deaths and 21 injuries.
But he did not escape from the scene and was directly subdued by the police and sentenced to death.
Two years later, all families with this case have undergone earth-shaking changes.
1
Victim family
Song Qiaoan, is the mother of Liu Tianyan, the victim of the shooting case, and the president of Tempting News and TV.
Because of this, her personality changed drastically, and her subordinates kept resigning due to her pressure. Some people even had to insist on completing their work before they dared to have children after the amniotic fluid was broken.
She is addicted to alcoholism every day and has a bad temper. is not only so strict with her employees, but also becomes indifferent to her family.
She devoted herself to work and could even forget her daughter's birthday.
Faced with colleagues' questions, why can't I care a little about the people around me, she said desperately:
"I can't even keep my own son, who else can I keep?"
In her eyes, there are only ratings. For news, she is very good at using title parties, but she adheres to the bottom line and principles.
Faced with the kindergarten hijacking case, even though other TV stations were broadcasting live, she was still insisting on waiting until the child was safe before broadcasting.
This shows how profound the loss of Tianyan has on her, even if it is not good for the ratings.
Daughter Tianqing also felt that her mother did not love her, but only loved her brother, which made Qiao An fall into deeper despair.
Tianyan's father Liu Zhongguo, the director of a newspaper.
Because of the departure of his son, he could not bear the pressure of family rupture, so he chose to use cheating to resolve it.
But at work, he has always insisted on "real".
He understood that no matter whether the murderer was sentenced to death or not, he could not replace his son.
But in the face of lawyer Li Xiaoming's request, he still wanted to explore the truth behind the case and really prevent such incidents from happening.
2
family of perpetrator
Li Xiaoming did such a thing, and for a moment everyone was accusing his parents of how they taught such a son.
They can't live a normal life, The noodle shop they own cannot continue to open, and insults often come from midnight.
They also wanted to go over and apologize and compensate, but when they arrived at the mourning scene, they found that they could not compensate at all, and they were also desperate.
Li Dazhi, 's original name is Li Xiaowen, and is Li Xiaoming's sister.
The mother couldn't bear to have her daughter fallen with this family, so she changed her name and told her to the public that her parents died in a car accident.
But this shameful mentality is already deeply rooted in . Even if you change your name, you can't change your perception of yourself.
Whether in work or in life, Li Dazhi is very low-key, rarely communicates with people, and her hair intentionally covers her face. She will never forget her identity in her heart.
Later she found that her leader, Sister Qiao An, was actually the family of the victims. Her colleagues' private discussions have always said that she became like this because of the murder case that year. Faced with a promising news station job, she did not have the courage and face to continue working.
But she couldn't even say the reason for resigning.
Li Xiaoming killed someone. Is his family obliged to bear the blame and infamy with him?
3
Legal lawyer
Wang She, Facing the large company provided by his family, he chose the career he wanted to be - a human rights lawyer.
He voluntarily defended Li Xiaoming with the goal of understanding why such people without mental illness suddenly did this.
can become a defense lawyer for such people. The masses will undoubtedly vent all their anger on them, such as being thrown into public.
But he did not compromise because of this and went to ask the families of the victims for help.
The law will naturally impose fair judgments on the final treatment of the murderer, but more importantly, explore the truth behind it, so as to prevent similar indiscriminate murders from happening in .
The 5.21 Taipei MRT case mentioned at the beginning of the article:
On the afternoon of May 21, 2014, a random person-killing incident occurred in Taipei MRT. In order to vent his anger for a moment, Zheng Jie, a 21-year-old college student in Donghai, injured 26 people with a knife, and cut one person in an average of 6.8 seconds, causing 4 deaths and 21 injuries.
Murderer Zheng Jie - a top student at University, without any abnormalities before committing the crime, no symptoms of mental illness...
"5·21 Taipei MRT Murder Case" Murderer Zheng Jie
Due to the media's emotional exaggeration and the continuous malicious remarks of the masses' keyboard warriors, Zheng Jie was soon executed.
commits the crime to death, eighteen days.
As for why he did such a thing, he has no way to know again.
But when people had not had time to forget this, two years later, another tragic "indiscriminate murder case" happened in Taipei -
-year-old child's little light bulb was cut off from the street.
On February 28, 2016, a mother went shopping with her three-year-old daughter "Little Light Bulb".
Suddenly, a man rushed over and slashed the small light bulb 23 times in a row to kill him.
Finally, the man was sentenced to life imprisonment.
But this incident made the worried netizens angry and began to put pressure on the media and the government to demand the execution of the murderer.
But at this time, Xiao Guangbulb's mother stood up and she refused to execute the murderer.
Then she asked five questions to people through the media, which had to arouse our deep thoughts:
What are they thinking?
Why can’t family, school, relatives, friends, and society catch him?
How do we improve and prevent?
All we can do is to continue to let such things happen?
What we can do is to continue to execute the death penalty quickly?
The mother of the little light bulb is actually the purpose of Wang She in the play. When facing "evil" incidents, don't just escape. Only by exploring the truth can we better avoid the tragedy happening again.
Wang She also raised a question in the play:
"What is a good person? What is a bad person? Is there a standard answer?"
This is exactly the issue that "The Distance between Us and Evil" wants to show us. In just two episodes, it tells the various reality in society clearly...
The media ignores the authenticity of the news for the sake of ratings, the online keyboard warriors only exaggerate emotions for the sake of temporary speed, and the infinite pressure from passers-by on the perpetrator's family...
This is a story that may happen to each of us. When an event occurs, how will we choose to face it?
In fact, The distance between us and evil is often only a matter of a single thought.
article is published from the official account: Laiying
